Topic: [2015-06-14] WSJ: Cash for the New Century (Read 423 times)
Bitcoin can always use good press and is really getting it at this point which leads me to believe that we're right on the cusp of the great news that led us into the bull trajectory in late 2013. Prime time.
I saw this and it was a really nice review. I have not read the book though. On balance good press for bitcoin!
Cash for the New Century
http://www.wsj.com/articles/cash-for-the-new-century-1434318284
If you watch Mike Judge’s brilliant HBO comedy series “Silicon Valley” (and why wouldn’t you?), then you’ll snicker at the number of times bitcoin evangelists say that they’re changing the world. In 2015 technological innovations can’t just be cool or practical; they must promise to Make the World a Better Place.
What sets the digital currency bitcoin apart is that it is actually poised to transform our lives (or at least our money), as Nathaniel Popper, a New York Times reporter, chronicles in his breezy and informative book “Digital Gold.” The question is: Is it changing the world for the better? It depends on which one of Mr. Popper’s many characters you ask.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/cash-for-the-new-century-1434318284
If you watch Mike Judge’s brilliant HBO comedy series “Silicon Valley” (and why wouldn’t you?), then you’ll snicker at the number of times bitcoin evangelists say that they’re changing the world. In 2015 technological innovations can’t just be cool or practical; they must promise to Make the World a Better Place.
What sets the digital currency bitcoin apart is that it is actually poised to transform our lives (or at least our money), as Nathaniel Popper, a New York Times reporter, chronicles in his breezy and informative book “Digital Gold.” The question is: Is it changing the world for the better? It depends on which one of Mr. Popper’s many characters you ask.
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